How to Get Rid of Fleas in Your Home (3 Easy Steps)

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How to Get Rid of Fleas In Your Home

Step 1: Clean Up And Sanitize Your Home

Cleaning your home is a very important step to eradicating a flea problem. Fleas lay a lot of eggs, and a prime place to lay the eggs is usually deep in the carpeting. Vacuuming, sweeping and mopping help get the flea eggs, larvae, and pupae out of your carpets, upholstery, tile, and wood floors.

Throw away your vacuum bag immediately after vacuuming. Flea pupae might hatch inside the bag from the vibrations your vacuum causes. If you have a vacuum that doesn't have a bag, clean the canister with hot soapy water immediately after you’re finished.

On floors and hard surfaces, make sure to sweep and mop as well. Fleas love dark secluded areas to hide in so also clean over your baseboards as they are known to reside there.

Wash your pet's bedding areas and pet crates. Fleas love to be in close quarters with your pet -- if they are not on the pet itself they can conveniently feed on their blood when they are hungry.

Wash your pet's toys - Fleas and eggs will hide in your pet's toys. If you can't wash one of your pet's toys, it is best to throw it out. You should also toss any clothing or sheets that you suspect have fleas in the washer on high heat to kill the fleas.

Step 2: Chemical Control

The two chemicals that are most effective in eliminating an indoor flea infestation is a contact insecticide spray and an an IGR (insect growth regulator). You can get both of these in one product, an aerosol spray called Novacide Flea & Tick Killer.

Apply Novacide to all of the areas that you suspect may have flea activity. Here are some common areas:
pet beds and resting areas
Carpets and rugs
nearby cracks and crevices
along and behind baseboards
window and door frames
localized areas of floor and floor coverings where fleas may be present.
Spray around the bottom of furniture and under furniture

You may need to perform repeat applications of the product in those same areas every couple of days combined with daily vacuuming for at least two weeks to make sure that all the remaining fleas and the eggs they have laid have been sucked up and removed from the home.

Step 3: Do Follow-Up Treatments and Be Patient.

Unfortunately, total control of fleas is not a instant process even with the best flea control products at your disposal. Typically, a flea infestation indoors takes between 3 to 5 weeks to be totally eradicated. Adult fleas usually die quickly once the carpets and furniture have been treated but the flea eggs are the real problem that takes a longer process. Flea eggs take a week or two to hatch and become pupae and larvae.

Follow up applications must be consistent for the this timespan until the eggs and larvae have been sucked up by a vacuum or killed by the insecticide sprayings.

Conclusion

By following the steps above you will have successfully treated your home. However, your work is not complete as preventative measures should be put into place to ensure fleas do not come back into the home. Also your yard should also be treated since fleas may be on your lawn and around the perimeter of your home just waiting for another opportunity to jump onto your pets and back inside the home. We recommend equipping yourself with our Guaranteed Flea Control Kit so you have all you need to treat your pets, your home and your outdoor yard.